Sohmyung Ha

Intra-body power transfer (IBPT) is a technique that delivers power to distributed
wearable devices though the human body. It has emerged as an alternative or even
a complementary method to traditional energy harvesting (EH) and inductive
wireless power transfer (WPT) as it can supply power to wearable devices
regardless of their locations on the body. Moreover, IBPT enables the miniaturization
of wearable sensor nodes by physically separating the bulky power source from the
sensor load. It allows the power source to be placed at an optimal location on the
body for EH or WPT. In this talk, basic principles, system modeling, challenges, and
techniques of IBPT will be presented.

Biography:

Professor Sohmyung Ha received the B.S (summa cum laude) and the M.S. degrees
in Electrical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. From 2006 to
2010, he worked at Samsung Electronics as a mixed-signal circuit designer for
commercial multimedia devices. After this extended career in industry, he returned to
academia as a Fulbright Scholar and obtained the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Bioengineering with the Engelson Best Ph.D. Thesis Award for Biomedical
Engineering from the Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San
Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA, in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Since 2016, he has been
an Assistant Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE and a
Global Network Assistant Professor at New York University, New York, NY, USA.
He currently serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical
Circuits and Systems, IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society, and
Frontiers in Electronics and served as an associate editor of Smart Health (Elsevier)
from 2016 to 2021. He is a member of the Analog Signal Processing Technical
Committee (ASP TC) and the Biomedical and Life Science Circuits and Systems
Technical Committee (BioCAS TC) of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
(CASS). He is also a member of the IMMD Subcommittee of the International
Technical Program Committee (ITPC) of the International Solid-State Circuits
Conference (ISSCC).

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